The Office of Community Engagement comprises the director of community engagement, who leads the office, the program assistant of the OCE, the program manager for MICA PLACE, and the current coordinator and assistant of MICA's Community Art Collaborative (CAC).
Karen Stults, director of community engagement, has been providing strategic and programmatic leadership within nonprofit, arts and social change organizations for more than 20 years, including her recent role at MICA as director of corporate, foundation and government relations. Her experiences as an advocate, organizer, executive director and practicing artist inform her creative and issue-based approach to program administration. She holds a M.Ed. in Policy Development and Program Evaluation from Vanderbilt University, and certificates in ceramics and sculpture and museum exhibition planning and design from the Corcoran College of Art + Design and Georgetown University, respectively. Stults is a member of the Board of Directors and cast of Fluid Movement, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Conservatory Association and the development committee of Arts Every Day. She is an alumna of the Windcall Residency Program for social change activists and a recipient of the Tomorrow's Leaders Today award.
Kristy Taylor has joined the community engagement team as program manager for MICA PLACE. Most recently, Taylor served as community liaison for the City of Baltimore Mayor's Office of Neighborhoods. In that capacity, she worked with numerous communities, organizations and government agencies throughout the City, promoting partnerships and collaborations. Her sales and marketing background allows her to assist others while targeting problems with creative solutions. Taylor has served Baltimore communities as a Maryland Master Gardener organizing plant clinics and as a library board member, increasing local branch usage as a community center by promoting youth literacy activities and education. She holds a B.A. in liberal arts with a concentration in political science from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.
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Julie Lin '99 (painting) is the assistant of CAC and a practicing artist. Her current project, Kitchen Stories, began while she was a resident community artist for Art on Purpose, and it continued this year while she was a Kresge Arts in Baltimore grant awardee. The project seeks to engage Baltimore immigrants and refugees in a series of artmaking workshops, exhibitions and special events by sharing stories about cooking, eating and memories. She has worked as an administrator and educator for many local nonprofit organizations.
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